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The pineapple is a tropical plant with an edible multiple fruit consisting of coalesced berries also called pineapples and the most economically significant plant in the Bromeliaceae family.

Pineapples may be cultivated from a crown cutting of the fruit possibly flowering in 5–10 months and fruiting in the following six months. Pineapples do not ripen significantly after harvest.

Pineapples can be consumed fresh cooked juiced or preserved. They are found in a wide array of cuisines. In addition to consumption the pineapple leaves are used to produce the textile fiber piña in the Philippines commonly used as the material for the men's barong Tagalog and women's baro't saya formal wear in the country. The fiber is also used as a component for wallpaper and other furnishings.

The plant is indigenous to South America and is said to originate from the area between southern Brazil and Paraguay however, little is known about the origin of the domesticated pineapple MS Bertoni considered the Paraná–Paraguay River drainages to be the place of origin of A. comosus. The natives of southern Brazil and Paraguay spread the pineapple throughout South America and it eventually reached the Caribbean Central America and Mexico where it was cultivated by the Mayas and the Aztecs. Columbus encountered the pineapple in 1493 on the leeward island of Guadeloupe. He called it piña de Indes meaning pine of the Indians and brought it back with him to Spain thus making the pineapple the first bromeliad to be introduced by humans outside of the New World. The Spanish introduced it into the Philippines, Hawaii Zimbabwe and Guam. The fruit is said to have been first introduced in Hawaii when a Spanish ship brought it there in the 1500s. The Portuguese took the fruit from Brazil and introduced it into India by 1550.

The pineapple was brought to northern Europe by the Dutch from their colony in Surinam. The first pineapple to be successfully cultivated in Europe, is said to have been grown by Pieter de la Court at Meerburg in 1658. In England, a huge pineapple stove needed to grow the plants had been built at the Chelsea Physic Garden in 1723. In France, King Louis XV was presented with a pineapple that had been grown at Versailles in 1733. Catherine the Great ate pineapples grown on her own estates before her death in 1796. Because of the expense of direct import and the enormous cost in equipment and labour required to grow them in a temperate climate using hothouses called pineries pineapples soon became a symbol of wealth. They were initially used mainly for display at dinner parties rather than being eaten and were used again and again until they began to rot. By the second half of the 18th century the production of the fruit on British estates had become the subject of great rivalry between wealthy aristocrats. John Murray 4th Earl of Dunmore built a hothouse on his estate surmounted by a huge stone cupola 14 metres tall in the shape of the fruit it is known as the Dunmore Pineapple.

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